Ms. Sussman and her team shot the film mostly in Central Asia, using local fixers to gain access to settings like a chemical factory in Aktau, an oil-field town on the banks of the Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan.

*** Energy Halliburton's earnings soared to $511 million from $206 million a year earlier, as the oil-field services company reported that increased activity in North American unconventional oil fields more than offset impacts from unrest in North Africa and delays in Iraq.

Although Mr. Batista has said the company's first wells will begin flowing in September, the uncertainties raised by the new audit, by U.S.-based oil-field consultants DeGolyer & MacNaughton, fueled growing concerns over OGX's ability to meet the high expectations investors had originally placed in the company.